An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press releases, status reports, interviews & biographies.
A collection of multimedia, illustrations & animations, a glossary, FAQ & more.
A collection of illustrations, animations and video.
Chandra discoveries in an audio/video format.
Q&A: Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, AGN, and Quasars
When I look at the picture of the Centaurus galaxy cluster at
the web site
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0146/
which part of the data below the image gives me a rough idea
about how far this cluster is from the Earth?
The distance to the Centaurus cluster is about 170 million
light years.
See more on distance here:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/scale_distance.html.
